The rise of Chinese auto market exports has been both rapid and impactful all around the globe. And while these machines are still effectively banned from sales in the United States by way of tariffs, regulations, and limitations on Chinese technology, our closest neighbors in both Mexico and Canada have already reached deals with brands like BYD, JAC, Chery, and MG Motors to import cars. With President Donald Trump gearing up for a meeting with the People’s Republic of China’s President Xi Jinping in May, there’s concern inside Congress that Trump will make such a deal himself. The president ruffled quite a few feathers back in January during his appearance at the Detroit Economic Club when he suggested that he’d “love” to see Chinese car companies bring some facilities to Michigan in particular and the States in general, specifically highlighting the potential for job creation in the process. For Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), that sentiment set off alarm bells. Slotkin is no stranger to the questions surrounding Chinese automakers in America; her first piece of legislation as a new senator, The Connected Vehicle National Security Review Act, specifically outlined the potential national security risks associated with Chinese automakers, as well as economic risks to our own automotive industry. “I think it's an issue of economic security and national security," Slotkin told Road & Track. "You don't have to be a deep expert to understand that the Chinese Communist Party heavily subsidizes their industry, so they have a whole strategy of basically stealing our intellectual property—making stuff like cars and drones off of stuff that we've invented, and then heavily subsidizing them so that they undercut and kill the industry that they enter. They have a long history of doing that with drones, [and] the solar industry is ninety percent Chinese